Oscars

Kevin Hart has stepped down as the host of the 91st Academy Awards, a job he held for two days. When The Academy pressed the comedian to apologize to the LGBTQ community for his past comments or step down, the actor/comedian refused. When Hart announced in an Instagram post that he was going to host the Oscars, I took Twitter to …

Isle of DogsMary Poppins Returns 20 films will compete for a Visual Effects Oscar nomination, the Academy announced today. They include Black Panther, Isle of Dogs, Mary Poppins Returns and A Quiet Place. Curiously missing from the list was Annihilation. Alex Garland’s previous film, Ex Machina, was a surprise Oscar winner in this category for 2015. Also missing was high …

Twitter has spoken: Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Avengers, Tiffany Haddish & Maya Rudolph, and John Mulaney & Nick Kroll should be considered as Oscar hosts Yesterday I was thinking about how strange it was that it was almost December and we still had no announcement of an Oscars host. Last year we knew it was Jimmy Kimmel way back in May …

A near-record 166 documentary feature films have officially been submitted for the 91st Academy Awards. Last year saw 170 submissions. 2018 has been a blockbuster year for documentaries with RBG, Three Identical Strangers, Won’t You By My Neighbor? and Free Solo all certified box office hits. Netflix, which won Documentary Feature last year with Icarus, is in the race again …

The last two years saw the Foreign Language Film Globe winner not nominated for the Oscar 80 films from 49 countries have qualified to be nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for the Foreign Language Film category at the 76th Golden Globe Awards. The Golden Globes do things differently than the Oscars; primarily, they allow more than one …

In a standoff that began at Cannes, Netflix has acquiesced and decided to give the releases of three of their fall/winter films theatrical runs before their streaming release, a first for the streaming giant and a strategic move on the everchanging Oscar landscape. Netflix made a big splash last year when Mudbound earned four Oscar nominations, all of which came …

When I first wrote about the box office potential of Oscar films back in 2014, I noted that while financial success is not as significant as critical acclaim and pedigree, it can still sometimes play a key role in making or breaking a film’s awards potential. Four years later and, for the most part, that still remains the case. Netflix …

The line between supporting and lead has always been a blurry one. Sometimes the sheer impact of a character and of an actor’s performance can propel them from a supporting lock to a lead contender. Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs and Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are probably the two biggest examples of …

Twenty-five features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 91st Academy Awards.The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are: “Ana y Bruno”“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch”“Early Man”“Fireworks”“Have a Nice Day”“Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation”“Incredibles 2”“Isle of Dogs”“The Laws of the Universe – Part I”“Liz and the Blue Bird”“Lu over the Wall”“MFKZ”“Maquia: When the Promised Flower …

2020 Best Picture Predictions

1917 (Universal) December 25
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Sony/Columbia) November 22
Ford v. Ferrari (20th Century Fox) November 15
Harriet (Focus Features) November 1
The Irishman (Netflix)
Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight) October 18
Just Mercy (Warner Bros.) January 17, 2020
The Laundromat (Netflix)
Little Women (Sony/Columbia) December 25
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Sony/Columbia) July 26

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